Felt all right this morning after my run of 80½ miles yesterday + being up from 5 a.m. till 1 a.m. this morning. Saw some town cases motoring + went to Edinburgh to a Branch Committee meeting1 with 12:55 via Peebles. Walked out to Youngs2 about an ear apparatus but it wouldn’t do. Went to the meeting at 4 + came out with Somerville3 at 6. Bought a pair of Argosy Braces4 at Forsyth.5
1 The local panel of the British Medical Association.
2 Youngs is so far unidentified.
3 James William Somerville (1866-1934), one of the medical practitioners at Galashiels at this time.
4 Advertised as “Elastic without indiarubber” [sic] Argosy Braces comprised a fairly normal shoulder strap with a rather peculiar set of checks and balances around the waist which apparently made it “impossible by any strain to pull off a Button”. They were marketed as sportswear so perhaps Dr Muir had cycling in mind, or further intimacy with Mrs Mack.
5 R W Forsyth Ltd. trading as Forsyth’s Foreign & Colonial outfitters of Renfield Street, Glasgow and 30 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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